This Book Club will be on the 4th Friday of each month at 12:30 PM at the Wickliffe Senior Center, 900 Worden Rd. Call the library at 440-944-6010 to register and reserve the title of the month.
2/27: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz – ‘You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late.’ These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine … Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?
3/27: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Minerva is a graduate student researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure horror author. Tremblay’s most famous novel was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is studying and became obessed with her otherworldly roommate, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. These events echo stories Minerva’s Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had an encounter with a witch. Minerva begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus in 1990s Massachusetts.
4/24: Devil’s Gulch by William W. Johnstone – John Holt is a traveling gunslinger. He’s been liberating dirty towns west of the Mississippi of murdering outlaw trash ever since the Civil War ended. No questions asked. Payment on demand. Holt’s latest job is in Devil’s Gulch in Colorado Territory. But wiping out bands of bank robbers is just the beginning. More disorder is brewing, and the skittish mayor has handpicked Holt as the new sheriff. Holt is what the town needs: a mercenary with a badge, a loaded Remington, and a deadeye-aim for trouble.
5/22: The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier – From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
6/26: After Annie by Anna Quindlen – When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody’s fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The power she has given to those who loved her is the power to go on without her. The lesson they learn is that no one beloved is ever truly gone.
7/24: Death of a Spy by M.C. Beaton – Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is worried about how the folks will react to his new assistant officer; the enigmatic American James Bland, whose true mission is to track down the members of a Russian spy network. In the meantime, he and Bland deal with it the usual crop of traffic incidents, lost wallets, lost dogs, and lost people, but a spate of burglaries committed by a man dubbed “Spiderman” give Hamish cause for serious concern. Hamish has to use all of his contacts and every ounce of his Highland guile to find the robber and protect the village.
8/28: The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah – When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
9/25: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree – Viv, an ogre who begins anew in a medieval coastal town. With the help of new friends, old comrades, and fellow business owners, she navigates her new battle-free life and overcomes obstacles in each world-building.
10/23: The Night House by Jo Nesbø – When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing the town.
2026 Titles
Janaury: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides – Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, is determined to get an artist who shot her husband and then never spoke another word to talk, which takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations – a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.
